Posted on 07/31/2006 9:49:08 AM PDT by Fawn
Authorities were searching Monday for a man who witnesses said shot and killed an Illinois tourist who was asking for directions.
After dropping his son off at a shopping mall, Ronald Gentile, 54, pulled over in the Coconut Grove area Saturday afternoon, police said. Witnesses reported seeing Gentile roll down the window on his rented white Chevrolet Cobalt. A man dressed in black then apparently approached the vehicle, robbed and shot Gentile.
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Gentile spent time with this son, hugged him good bye, and drove away at about 5 p.m., Friday. Thirty minutes later, he was lost in the drug infested area of the Grove.
Gentile pulled down the window of his rental Chevy, at the corner of Washington Ave. and Jefferson St. to ask for directions.
Instead of giving him a helpful tip, an unidentified black man robbed and shot him.
Teherangeles is actually a nice bit of West Los Angeles. Although not marked on a map, it's in an arc extending from to about 3-4 miles
to the west and south of UCLA.
A few years back when Iran beat the USA in soccer, they had a peaceful party
that shut down a major street (Westwood). Westwood is the north-south street
that come straight out of the UCLA campus; the mile or two between Wilshire
Blvd and Sunset Blvd has plenty of food shops, book stores and restaurants with
signs in English and Farsi.
By and large, I think the Muslims there are old friends of The Shah, not
fundamentalist wackos. And are doing well by hard work and/or the gold
they brought from Iran.
IIRC, Catherine Bell of "JAG" was a Tehrangeles resident and UCLA student.
Definitely not stupid. Very successful. But maybe a bit eccentric. He just wanted to go to a certain sandwich shop.
Shouldn't this be considered a racist hate crime? If a Black was robbed and gunned down outside a suburban shopping mall by a white perpetrator, Jesse Jackson et. al. would be screaming racism and demanding swift justice.
It's all a slum now.
"There are racist areas of the country for all people groups. in some places (apparently this coconut grove is one of them) people of European descent experience racism. in other places it is people of African descent."
Simply not true. In most every city or town in America, of any size, there is at least one neighborhood where white folks are in danger, not of some racist comments, but in danger of being killed. And lack people have the sheer audacity to complain about being pulled over by the cops in "white" neighborhoods. Cry me a freakin' river.
The opposite is simply not true, no matter how "balanced" you wish it was.
Sad. But for those guys who get lots of spousal encouragement but all too little map reading...next time your wife insists you stop and ask for directions, you have a little tragedy to narrate.
Warning to tourists: Do not go to Miami.
I have noticed that many of the crime shows on Court TV and A&E seem to feature Florida a lot more than other places. It gives you the impression that there must be a h*ll of a lot of murders there. At one time we were considering moving down there (having vacationed there a couple of times), but the murders, the abominable heat in summer, and the hurricanes have soured us on the notion. Also, there seems to be a mosque on every other corner down there.
Been there, done that. Lived to tell about it.
You have a funny definition of "cross country"... ;}
"Not quite sure where Coconut Grove is, but I do know one of the scariest experiences in my life was trying to find Hialeah Park back in 1989. Got off I-95, got lost, ended up wandering around somewhere where even the street signs were in Spanish."
Probably 'Little Havana', better than Liberty City. You don't stop in Liberty City.
If you talk to blacks,you will find out that there are MANY places in this country they will not go after dark.Now they may be wrong about those places,but that is their perception.
And why so many presumably"white"scaredy cats on this thread?People in these "tough"areas can sense your fear and then see you as a "vic".My work brings me to all kind of crazy areas but I just walk with my head up and show confidence.
If you believe the crime stats,its blacks and Mexicans themselves that have far more to fear in these neighborhoods.
I went south on the 101 (L.A.) instead of north adn when I couldn't read the street signs for all the graffiti I new I'd screwed up. Compton is a pretty cool place in the day time but you keep moving. Be careful when you come here to Memphis "The Dirty South" we're over 100 homicides this year so far.
Worth Repeating.
I took the Grey Line bus tour when I was down in the Big Easy several years ago to run the half-marathon. The map we had showed areas shaded in green, yellow and red. Our bus driver told us to stay in the green area, avoid the yellow area after dark, and under no circumstances enter the red area. These regions were only several blocks away from each other.
Fortunately, there weren't too many things to worry about during the half-marathon, unless a gator decided to poke out of a canal and see what was going on.
Over 100 homicides?
I bet 99 of them are blacks killed by other blacks over gang turf,drugs,female drama,etc.
SE DC has been a jungle for a long time. (I lived in Loudoun for many years)
You should've put some money on your bet because you would be right..at least about the black on black part of it. If they want to kill themselves that is fine with me.
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